I've also had a similar experience. Those people are real fuckheads,
pardon my English.
I got one of those infamous e-mail messages, check this:
quoted 8 lines Thank you for your order with Online Stores by Shopnow.com. Unfortunately,
> Thank you for your order with Online Stores by Shopnow.com. Unfortunately,
> some of the products you ordered, CDs - Terrence Parker- Tragedies of a
> Plasic Soul Jun/ De La Soul- De La Soul is Dead/ Herbaliser- Wall Crawling
> Giant Insect Bra/ Freezone 4-Dangerous Lullabies/ De La Soul- Three Feet
> High and Rising, are no longer available for purchase through our
> supplier. Your order for those cds will be cancelled as of today. We
> apologize for the inconvenience, and hope to serve your online shopping
> needs in the future.
This is fucking bullshit!!!
Has ANYONE yet to receive a complete order from these dumbfucks?
-pt
quoted 24 lines Update...I got 4/12 which I ordered with no indication concerning what
>Update...I got 4/12 which I ordered with no indication concerning what
>to/not to expect. I had also ordered another 5 and heard nothing on
>that. I emailed and inquired. They told me they'd investigate. I get an
>email back with a "sorry, no go" message - BUT I should get all of the
>2nd order. In the meantime, another friend of mine gets told that they
>cannot get 2 of the very cds they have just told me thay can supply. I
>informed them that I was considering contacting the BBB over "bait and
>switch" tactics. They offer me 20$ off of whatever I want and tell me
>that they "reserve the right" not to supply certain cds in RARE
>instances like mine. Trouble is, from what I've heard via the Ambient &
>IDM lists, *my* situation isn't rare at all, but seemingly their normal
>way of doing biz. I know some of you got freebies, but that's not what
>I'm looking for. They are either using bait and switch tactics on
>purpose or else they are completely clueless in a business sense (the
>excuse they offer is that they "switched distributors and the new one
>cannot supply most of the titles in question". WHY switch to them,
>then?). At any rate, I thought that this URL may be of some use to those
>of us who think that myshopnow has been intentionally dishonest with
>their selling tactics. I know they're lying - at least to my friend
>and/or possibly to myself. As long as everybody takes it in stride,
>they'll probably keep it up, too. If you're interested...
>
>BBB (for US & Canada) http://www.bbb.org/
>(bait and switch info) http://www.bbbsouthland.org/topic016.html